Software review and matchmaker site, Software Advice, just completed a survey of over 300 CRM users. The resulting data is a valuable guideline for CRM developers, but more importantly we thought a recap of the survey and results merited a blog post because they mirror many of the discussions we have with prospects and customers ... Read Post

Tiger Coatings Aligns Sales and Marketing and Tames Document Chaos About Tiger Coatings Tiger Coatings fabricates powder coatings for a broad variety of applications: automotive, industrial, furniture, electronics, retail, appliances, and many more. A “powder coating” is applied as a free-flowing dry powder applied usually over metal, with numerous advantages over conventional liquid paint, including ... Read Post

In a recent blog post we touched on the types of sales which are being mostly automated, and highlighted the fact that in the higher-ticket B2B sales, human sales techniques will always be required. Expanding on that point further, it can be seen that today—thanks in a large part to technology—“sales” can no longer be lumped ... Read Post

Amar Sheth at Sales for Life hosts a popular video series, “The Social Success Factor” where he interviews people who have incorporate social selling activities into their workflow. This interview is with Chris Poole from Spot Check Services, a company that provides tools to improve customer satisfaction. Chris has had amazing success with social. Recently, ... Read Post

As a sales professional, you probably know the basics about online signature products. They’re easier to use and less expensive than ever. Unfortunately, knowing how to use an online signature tool is not going to give you a competitive advantage in today’s deals. But there’s a newer, related technology that will. It’s called document analytics. ... Read Post

What better way to remind ourselves that metrics are crucially important, as long as we keep them in perspective. A Few Helpful Links: Adjusting the Progressive Pipeline 4 Steps to Improve Sales Performance Management How to Motivate Your Sales Team Get your free trial of Pipeliner CRM now. Read more about CRM software and the ... Read Post

Many companies are rightly proud of their top sales producers, men, and women who grind out quotas and close crucial deals—month-to-month, quarter-to-quarter, year-to-year. Consistently, reliably, predictably. The go-to people who bring home the revenue bacon. You know who they are. Let us talk no more of them. Occasionally we learn of salespeople so exceptional, so ... Read Post

Social selling has become a very trendy term to describe how salespeople should appropriately use social media to help their customers. The appeal of social media makes sense in a world where an estimated 50% to 70% of the selling process is thought to be outside of the hands of the salesperson. At the same time, potential clients ... Read Post